For more than 25 years, the Portland office has been serving clients from the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere across a broad array of disciplines. Once known primarily for its forest products, Portland has transformed into a hub for the sustainability, renewable energy, biotechnology, software, creative services and sportswear industries.

Our principal practice areas in Portland include corporate transactions, public finance, litigation, and regulatory compliance.

The transactional Portland attorneys of K&L Gates are recognized as leaders in sophisticated finance techniques, including public and private debt and equity offerings, real estate finance, secured and unsecured lending, distressed company finance, and public finance. We counsel clients in mergers and acquisitions, financings, technology and intellectual property transactions, real estate developments, executive employment agreements, and commercial contracts. Our clients include both the company side and investor side of the finance relationship. For private equity, hedge fund, and venture capital clients, we advise on fund formation, key investments as well as provide portfolio company counsel.

The Portland office is a center of K&L Gates' leading public finance practice and represents state agencies, municipalities, ports, utilities, and school districts. Our public finance attorneys also represent underwriters and credit providers in complex pension bond, derivative, and affordable housing projects. In this capacity, and in light of the prominence and involvement of its lawyers in civic and business affairs, the office has played a leadership role in many of the public-private economic development initiatives in Portland and across the state of Oregon.

Our litigation experience covers a spectrum of business disputes and issues, including antitrust, bankruptcy, contracts, creditors' rights, employment, environment, intellectual property, shareholder disputes, and tort claims. We practice in the state, federal and appeals courts of Oregon and Washington. Our regulatory experience includes advice on compliance with state and federal administrative agency regulations.

For our regulated industries clients, we counsel energy and utilities companies on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission matters as well as citing and development, environmental compliance, sale, marketing, and distribution of power. For clients in the food, drug, cosmetic, and medical device industries, we advise on Food and Drug Administration regulatory law, as well as human subject research compliance and labeling restrictions.